We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free?
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School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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When I first prepared this particular talk…
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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